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L. F. STANDISH, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

ALetters Patent No. 80,780, dated August 4, '1868i IMPROVEMENT PEN AND PENCIL-GASES.

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T ALL WHOM IT MAY GONOERN:

Beit known that I, L. F. STANDISH, of Springfield, Hampden county, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful improved Knife and Pen Combinationg and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and clear description thereoi`,vreference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a. side view of my invention.`

Figure 2, the same in a dilferent position.

Figure 3, `a sectional view ofthe same.

This invention consists of a device in which a knife-*blade and a pen or other convenient andcommongtool may be used alternately or separately, by merely sliding a single slide to either end of the handle, respectively.

In construction, I formmy device of a handle, consisting of a hollow tube,.tapcring on the outside to each end, in a neat and convenient manner for its use by the hand. This tube contains inside a slide, B, having the blade H of a similar shape as that lof a. pen-knife, forming a part of it or attached to it. A socket for a pen is made on the other end of the slide, 4or a crochet-bookmay be made to suit a socket cut for it in this piece. The tube A is open at both ends, and when one of4 the tools connected to the slide is in use, the other is within the handle, the same motion of the slide that pushed out one of them withdrawing the other. In the drawings, iig. 1 represents the knife-blade outand the pen in fig. 2, the reverse. The slide B is operated bythe hand, by means of a pin, D, set into it, and-projecting outside of the handle through a slot, E, cut through the latter. This slot extends the whole length ofthe workingr space ofthe slide, and allows the latter to be moved to just the proper extension for the proper use of the tools at either end. The pin D extends through the slide B to the other side, where a spring, F, is put aroundit. This spring, which is confined by the inside surface ofthe handle, forms a friction sucient for the purpose of keeping the slide at any position it should be left in.

I do not wish to conne myself, in this device, to the exact combination of knife andi-pen shown, as other tools can be used with it, as convenient to have with it--a crochet-hook, boot-hook, dtc., for instance; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i The combination of the slotted handle A withthe slide B, having the knife-blade II at one end, and a pen or other convenient tool at the other, and operated by the pin D working in the slot E, 'substantially as shown.

L. F. STANDISH.

Witnesses:

EDWARD H. HYDE, J. B. GARDINR. 

